Jeremy's Blog

The most magical moment of my life was on Christmas Day, 1979.

I've been working my way through the beginnings of the personal computing industry, starting in late 1974 with the introduction of the Altair 8800.

The year was 1987.

In my post about my year in Valheim, I had one section that I always felt strangely bad about: “At first I labelled many of my cottages in Valheim as Keats, but finally settled on just one that was on its own small island.

The saga is complete!

The second part of my History of the Internet is up on Ars Technica!

This is a great story of a computer and an electronics pioneer who are almost totally unknown today.

The first of my three-part article on the history of the Internet is up on Ars Technica!

I was going to do a series of blog posts (you can read the first one here) about developing my "reimagined" Balablox, the most obscure game of all time.

Introduction I never liked survival games.

This one's a doozy - welcome to the crazy world of personal computers in the 1970s.

This article was deeply personal to me, because my life overlapped with so much of it.

It's an exciting beginning for me, the culmination of a dream I've had for a long time, to chronicle the entire history of personal computing.

If this works, you should be seeing a new blog post!

In a previous article I posted my thoughts on Facebook's sad attempt at a Metaverse, and how it was already failing shortly after launch.

The third and final article in my History of the ARM chip series is now live on Ars Technica!

A second article in less than a week!

This morning I was happy to find that Part 2 of my History of ARM article is now live on Ars Technica.

The original game, running on my Heathkit H-89 A while back, I wrote about the most obscure video game ever made, called Balablox, which I wrote when I was 15 years old in 1987.

I'd like to tell you a story about the most obscure video game ever made.

Sorry, Mark, nobody wants to join you here.

I'm excited to announce that Ars Technica has published the first part of my three-part series on the history of the ARM chip.

John Cleese playing Monty Python’s Dennis Moore, in a sketch where he discovers that the redistribution of wealth is harder than he thought.

My new article made the front page of Ars Technica this week!

In 1980, Douglas Adams wrote The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

This is a little something I whipped up on paper and then made real with a great little program called Affinity Designer.

The term “Microcomputer” was born in the 1970s, along with computers it described.

Well, it's been only a little over a month since New World was released, and the bloom is already off the rose.

If you’ve been following technology news over the past six months, you’ve undoubtedly heard the term “Metaverse” being promoted from many sources.

August 13, 1982.

New World is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for the PC, made by Amazon Studios.

Eagle-eyed viewers of this blog have already noticed the shiny new banner up top, along with a nice new headshot of yours truly.

Last week I read an abolutely amazing article on retro computing.

Titan is one of the most interesting places in the solar system.

I've got an exciting announcement!

I remember my mother cutting out the snippet in TV guide and showing it to me excitedly.

For most of my life, I’ve tried in vain to explain why I love cities.

The really cool folks at The Imaginaries Podcast interviewed me about my latest novel, and we had an amazing conversation about artificial intelligence and what it means to be human.

Happy New Year!

I just finished reading Agency, and my head is still spinning.

I'm excited to announce that my latest novel, Silicon Minds of Mars, is now available for purchase, for a limited-time only price of $2.99, from these fine bookstores: Amazon Books Kobo Books Barnes and Noble Booksellers Apple Books Silicon Minds of Mars…

You might notice a neat little lock icon in the upper left of the URL bar, courtesy of Let's Encrypt, a non-profit organization that hands out encryption certificates for websites.

If you look to the left of this post, you'll see a change in the signup form for my newsletter.

I just got back from an adventure on the high seas.

One of the most common questions new authors have is this: how they can be certain that their story is finished?

Last week, I had the honor of presenting the final few chapters of Silicon Minds of Mars to my writing group, the Simon Fraser University Science Fiction Union (affectionately known as SFU^2).

My upcoming novel takes place on Mars in 2072, a time and place where general artificial intelligences have been recognized as independent beings worthy of the same protection as humans.

Like many people, I’ve always had a romantic attachment to Mars.

You eagle-eyed observers out there will have noticed that I haven’t been posting as much on my blog lately.

I've finally moved the server for jeremyreimer.com to a more modern AWS instance.